Recapturing the Past A Modern Fairytale

A young girl from a small country village in France marries an American GI, travels to America and begins a life time journey to discover her past. A failed marriage, a failed love affair, overcome with insecurity and loneliness, she returns home to pursue her father’s dying wish to recapture her family’s secret past. She has everything but someone to share her life’s journey. More

Jacqueline Henne marries an American GI to escape the poverty of post World War France. Desperately trying to please her new husband she drives him away and despair throws her into the arms of a married man. An inheritance and an obscure key to a pre-war fortune is threatened when the Count of Lorraine challenges the inheritance and Jacqueline’s medieval family lineage.

Through ingenuity, hard work and natural ability Jacqueline overcomes the challenge and unlocks the key to her family fortune. Jacqueline finds and loses happiness, overcomes depression and finds that fortune and Royal Title will not find her happiness. Jacqueline’s life is a modern fairytale without an ending.

Raul Aguilar has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for over 35 years. A degree in Electrical Engineering lead to a career as an Electronic Analog Design Engineer for 10 years and ultimately inspired him to pursue a Juris Doctor degree from the University of San Francisco. Admission to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office diverted his interests temporarily, but ultimately fate led him to pursue a career as an Insurance Regulatory Attorney.Raul has pursued writing short stories as a means to express his interests in travel, 13th Century European History and International Relations. Raul's travels have led him from San Francisco across all the major cities in America to London, Paris, Cote d'Azur, Monaco, Germany, Italy, Rome, Spain, the Cayman Islands, the Caribbean, Mexico and South America. His writings reflect many of the places and cities visited by Raul and his lovely wife Diane.